Party official receives delegation of DPRK women’s unionPosted: Nov 29,2018

The head of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations, Hoang Binh Quan, met with a delegation of the Socialist Women’s Union of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in Hanoi on November 5.

The head of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations, Hoang Binh Quan (R), met with a delegation of the Socialist Women’s Union of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in Hanoi on November 5 (Photo: VNA)

Applauding the DPRK delegation’s working visit, Quan affirmed that the Vietnamese Party, State, and people have always treasured and are looking to enhance its friendship and cooperation with fraternal countries, including the DPRK.

He underlined the value of the traditional bilateral friendship and cooperation between Vietnam and the DPRK, which were nurtured by Presidents Ho Chi Minh and Kim Il-sung, and generations of leaders of the two nations.

Quang also highlighted Vietnam’s support for a Korean Peninsula of peace, stability, and prosperous development, expressing his delight at the positive progress in this peninsula.

At the meeting, the official also presented Vietnam’s achievements during its 30 years of reform, including substantial contributions by Vietnamese women and the Vietnam Women’s Union.

Quan voiced his belief that the Party, State, and people of the DPRK will continue efforts to promote regional peace, as well as wishing the Socialist Women’s Union success in attaining new accomplishments.

He asked the two women’s unions to devise further measures to increase experience sharing, especially in encouraging women’s engagement in socio-economic development. He also hoped they would develop stronger ties to contribute further to the relationship between the Vietnamese and DPRK people.

For her part, Chairwoman of the Socialist Women’s Union Jang Chun-sil, who is also an alternate member of the DPRK’s Workers’ Party Central Committee, briefed the host official about her country’s development accomplishments in recent years, the activities of the Socialist Women’s Union, and the two unions’ cooperation.

She said the Socialist Women’s Union will work closely with the Vietnam Women’s Union to carry out joint activities, thereby strengthening relations between the unions as well as between the two parties and states.–VNA

"... From the beginning of the first century A.D., when the two Trung Sisters rose up to fight the enemy and save the nation, until now, whenever our country has faced danger, our women have contributed whatever they could toward the cause of national liberation.

Our people are grateful that our mothers from South and North alike have borne and raised our nation's generation of heroes....

Under the Socialist system, tens of thousands of women have become specialists in different fields and, as cadre, serve as directors and vice-directors of factories, leaders of farming cooperatives, presidents of People’s Committees, and general secretaries of Party Cells....

And so, the women of Vietnam from ancient times until now, from South to North, from young to old, are truly heroes ..."

(Excerpted from President Ho Chi Minh's speech on the 36th Anniversary of Vietnam Women's Union 20 October 1966)